Bob and Janet Nelson, owners of the Ross elevator which was built by Civil War Veteran Charles Stuart, received a $25,000 matching grant from the Iowa Barn Foundation and have been raising funds to help restore the 130-year-old grain elevator.

That's how ARS researchers in Manhattan, Kansas, feel about the relationships they've built with grain elevator managers during a 4-year areawide integrated pest management (IPM) project, which began in 1997, in Kansas and Oklahoma.

GREAT PLAINS president Doug Burgum on the management ideals he learned from working in his company's family-owned grain elevator business: "When you've got a grain elevator, the people you serve are landowners, and they move the ownership of that land from father to son.

The co-op is currently expanding its grain elevator at Osceola, and there are plans for further expansion and upgrades, including an agronomy expansion in North Bend and grain expansion in Silver Creek.

The GAC[R] 2500 is also equipped with a color display/touchscreen, improved operator interface, and multiple communication methodologies, all of which make it easier to use in a commercial grain elevator setting.

The site includes proprietary data from Cargill, such as its cash grain data and specialized weather information, as well as access to third party technology, including mapping features that can help farmers easily find the nearest grain elevator.

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